“Simon Templar was a man who couldn’t help spreading melodrama all around him like an infectious disease.” — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas. — Bong Joon-ho Copy Share Image
'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama. — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
“I doubt whether any hack, under pressure, could pen such atrocious melodrama,” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
If I were to do a drama again, I would really like to work on a fatal melodrama, like a love that… — Song Hye-kyo Copy Share Image
And I have two eyes. I’ve seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What’s his… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of… — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning. — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when you’re gone, but one thing I won’t miss? Your overwhelming sense of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self-absorbed and… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
“How shall I typify what happened? Passion play? Somewhat. Weird tale? Indubitably. Horror story? Pretty close. Grotesque melodrama? Certainly. Black comedy? Your… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I came to this project and 'Far from Heaven' from completely different vantage points. 'Heaven' was of course about the Douglas Sirk… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Producers increasingly insert overblown, hyper-emotional scenes even when the underlying conflict could be portrayed with calm or rational dialogue. The intent is… — E. Ravago Copy Share Image
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I… — Diana Mauer Copy Share Image
“It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I chose the American ones, more or less the last five years of the silent era, because those are the ones that… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
“A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second… — William Styron Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
